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UNITED srA'rns PATENT orrro.

ALBION B. OOLOORD, OF KOKOMQ-GOLORADO, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT B. MGCONNEY AND CHARLES L. BUOKIN GHAM, OF DENVER, COLORADO. V

OSCILLATING SCREEN on one AND OTHER MATERIALS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Feb. 2, 1909.

, Application filed January'Z, 1908. Serial No. {108,947.

to provide a screen composed of two independent members, which are supported upon a rock shaft, the screen being automatically rocked or oscillated by the weight of ore upon one or the other of the independent screens, so that when one-screen descends to discharge the oversize therefrom, the other screen is brought into position to receive a supplyof ore pulp, a'common feed hopper supplying the two screens, whichare sepa" rated by a partition.

Afurther object of the invention is toprovide the rock shaft uponwhich the screens aresupported, withmeans, such as a counter balancing weight, suitably arranged, whereby the screens arethrown forcibly against suitable stops, the bump or jar'occasioned thereby causing the particles of material to be dislodged from them; suitable pipes being provided for supplying water to wash the screens, as they discharge, and for supplying water to carry ofl' the oversize product as it falls from the screens into suitable hoppers. The invention further consists in various details of construction hereinafterfully described, and also set forth in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1, is a side elevation of the improved screen. Figs. 2 and 3 are end elevations of the same. Fig. 4, is a vertical, longitudinal,

sectional view thereof. Fig. 5, is atransverse, vertical, sectional view thereof. Fig. 6, is an end viewof the screen supporting rock frame. Fig. 7, is a plan view of one of the removable screen frames upon which the screen fabric is secured. Fig. 8, is an end view of the same.

And Fig. 9, is a plan view Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1, designates the ends or standards of the frame of my "oscillating screen, which are in the form of irregular hexa ons; and 2, the sides, which are riveted or ot erwise secured to the ends. The ends 1, consist of a sheet iron plate, the edges of which are faced with angle irons 3, which I give rigidity to the plates.

The sides 2, consist of metal plates, which are riveted at their extremities to the side angle bars or ends, and the ends are further connected by a longitudinal hopper, to be hereinafter described.

To the upper central portion of the outside of each end plate 1, is secured a flanged journal box at, in which is journaled a shaft 5, which extends across the frame and through and beyond the boxes far enough to receive the hub of a segment gear 6, and a counter weight lever 7, which lever is held upon the shaft against the segment gear by a pin 8,

the lever being loosely mounted on the shaft. The flanges of each journal box are arranged substantially in the form of a cross, and the vertical and horizontal arms are bolted or otherwise secured to the end plates. Upon this shaft, between the standards of the frame, I mount a pair of screens 9 and ,10, which join at their upper sides, and which lie relatively to each other, at an angle corresponding to the oblique sides of an isosceles triangle, the apex ormeeting point of the screens beingabove the shaft 5. Each of these screens consists ingeneral of a rectangular frame 11, which sup orts a rectangular sheet of wire screen clotli 12. The screen frames 11, are supported in a frame capable of a rocking or swinging movement, and which consists of end plates 13, of the form shown in Fig. 6, which are connected at their upper ends by a sheet metal partition plate 1 1. An aperture, 15, is formed in each plate, and a flanged. hub 16, is secured by rivets to the outer face of each plate concentric with the aperture 15. These hubs are mounted onthe shaft 5, and secured to it by pins 17. The partition plate 14,f extends from the apertures 15, to the apexes of the plates.

;On the inner face of each plate, and extending downward from the apertures 15, at an angle of about one hundred and fifteen degrees, are riveted angle bars 18, upon which the frames 11, are secured. The frames 11, are preferably constructed of wood, and comprise end strips 19, and side strips 20 and 21, the strips 20 being arranged to lie against the partition plate 1 while the strips 21 form the lower or discharge sides of the frames. These latter strips triangular in cross section, and their upper faces lie at a slight angle to a horizontal plane, when the frames are balanced, and so as to incline toward each other. Additional cross strips 19 are secured across the frames, between the end strips 19, and prevent undue sagging of the screens; and upon the tops of these frames, the screens 12, are secured in any suitable manner, their 1 wer edge terminating in an outward curve or roll 12.

Upon the under side of each angle iron 18, is secured a thick piece of metal 22, and through the screen receiving pait of these angle bars and also through the metal pieces 22 1 form thread apertures, and through each of the side bars of the screen frame I form two apertures 23, to register with the threaded apertures in the angle iron and metal pieces, and the screen and its wooden frame are secured to the angle bats 18 by headed screws 24, which extend loosely through the apertures in the sides of the screen frame and screw into the threaded holes in the angle irons and their iietal pieces, and thus clamp the screen cloth and its wooden screen frame to the metal frame.

A screenings catching pan 25, is placed below each screen and is arranged to collect the screenings and deposit them into a general hopper 26. hese pans 25, are riveted at their ends to the plates 13, of the screen frame support, and incline downward toward a common point, terminating a short distance from each other, to form a discharge opening 27, which is always above the hopper 26. The outer side edges of the pans project into g ooves 28, formed in the adjacent faces of the strips 21, of the screen frame 11, and by this means leakage is prevented, when the pans are at the limit of their dow movement, as will be understood by reference to 5.

The hopper 26 comprises a trough shaped receiving portion, large enough to receive the screenings from the oscillating screenings catching pans, and a dischage spout 29,

which extends from the bottom of the trough to a point on a plane with the bottom of the standards of the supporting fraine.

The side plates 2, of the frame of the machine, extend across from the edge of one standai'd to the ed e of the opposite standaid, and their upper dges t minate at a point corresponding to the highest position reached by the screens in their oscillating i movement, while their lower edges extend to a point slightly below the lowest position reached by the scieens, and at their lower edges on the inside of these plates OvOJSlAP chutes 30 and 31, are placm'i, so as to ire directly below the lower or d :cliaign ends of the screens when at the lor. t n I of their downward movement. ore si :40 troughs incline downw; the standrds 1, towards the center of l 1"; arse. sufficiently U0 cause the ovetsn-ie iii-ate; ial to flow thiough heinfrom each end i1 )\'.:;..(l. a common discharge op ning. diselntgQ-je spout 32, extents from. i trou h 30 across to, and under, and l: yond l o pmsite trough 31, at a sufficient down an angle to cause the oversize mater al ilo though it, and si-iort dischaige spout emonus fr oin the trough 32. are secured. to sadt ie pl: cured to the end stand A we; one end of 51 into the liscne1ge spout stateti in and 1H, wlncn am noend " is 0; cell though, and who at is v I i- 1. in a ban n on let e of ccnin-tiod ii an 1 n 1 ins I l l '1 is Jinn no (11110" i i Oi l\' as tin All,

partially tine-ugh, is secured unon this end of t you? i),

l iU l the pipe, in such \ta" to pkrv This pinion meshes i 1 El the hub portion of nlnch is i and rigidly secured to the shalt, r a set screw 46. Ellis: g izent gear is p: ot'i on its outer face with two ODT XnIil KlJ a'ianged lugs 47, between nhicli the lOJCtf on of the counter-weight lever 7 lies, the scale i; tween them being greater than the Ht 1 ol' the lever, so as to allow the lover a liuiteii rocking movement on the shaft "the le er 7, is provided with a i'eii'icallv adjusiaiile weight 48, which is pror'idt l \iith a set sciei'c, and is adapted to be thrown by ggavitv to either side of a dead center line, as one or lit) the, other of the screens approaches'its low-f ermost position, thereby accelerating the tity of ore has been deposited upon the re-.

ceiving screen. 7

The water spraying pipe 43,'is provided with longitudinal rows of perforations 43, which discharge jets of water on the discharging screen, and as the double screen rocks, the segment gear 6 will'rotate the pinion 45, together with the pipe 43, sufficiently to cause the rows of perforations in the pipe to face the discharging screen, so that the water from the pipe may thoroughly dislodge all particles of ore pulp from the meshes of the screen. The water pipe is thus turned alternately as the screen oscillates, to wash the discharging screen, aswill be apparent by reference to the drawings. The end plates 13, of the screen support, are provided with segmental slots 43 through which the pipe 43 passes, and these slots allow the support its rocking movement, relatively to the said )1 e. r V it I lk ho per 50 is placed above the screen across t e top portion of the machine be tween its opposite side standards, and at one side of its center, so that its discharge edge,

stands directly over the center of the oscillating screen shaft 5. This hopper rests on and is riveted to angle iron bars 51, which are riveted to the inside faces of the ends 1, of the main frame. This hopper and the angle irons on which it rests are inclined downwardly and inwardly from the outside of the frame to its center enough to allow the ore or other material to flow easily through it. This hopper comprises a fiatbottom, provided with u wardly projecting end plates 53, and a pate 54 at the outer side,

which plates inclose the hopper on three sides,

as shown in l-ig. 9, leaving the discharge side open, and in order to distributethe stream of discharging ore or other material evenly overthe dischar e edge, I secure a plurality ofupright ore puTp dividing blades 52, to the bottom of the hopper, which preferably eX- tend up even with its side and ends. I preferably arrange these projecting blades in rows, spacing the rows at about equal distances apart across the greater portion of the hopper, and space the blades at equal distances a art in each row, but arrange them so that the blades nearest the feed end of the hopper arethe longest and widestapart, and

those of t ond r w frQm' r1 9 feed ndare I a little shorter in length, Y and the spacesber' tween them are a little closer togethenand the blades of the third and fourth rows. and the spaces betweenthem are still shorter and narrower in the same order. The object of these projecting blades is to divide and subdivide the supply ,of flowing ore pulp into small streams' Thus I illustrate four rows of blades for dividing the flowing current of ore pulp into enough strea ms to insure an even distribution of the ore pulp across the hopper, and an even thickness of the flowing stream of ore pul as it discharges from the discharge lip of t' e hopper. The first row of dividing blades at the feed end of the hopper divides the'current at its central portion into two streams as it flows through the two spaces between the blades these two streams then flow to the second row of blades, where I or the other of the apex partition as the screens are tilted below it by the weight of the flowing ore pulp.

The operation of my oscillating screen is as follows: The ore pulp, which is finely crushed ore and water mixed to make a Howing stream, is fed from a source of supply,

such as a stamp mill, through a suitable chute or launder, into the feed end of the hopper,from whichit flows between the dividing blades of the hopper over thedischarging edge thereof, from which it falls upon and flows in acontinuous stream onto either one or the otherof the screens that happens to be up in position to catch it, and assuming that the screen 10 at the right hand side of the machine is standing in a substantially flat or-horizontal plane under the stream of ore pulp, the ore pulp flows evenly onto it, and as the screen is slightly inclined downward, the ore will also flow evenly over its surface towards its discharge end, and all of the ore sand of the ore pulp that is fine enough flows through the screen and drops into the pan 25, and from this pan it flows into the hopper 26. The discharge side of the hopper 50, is of the same width as the screens; consequently the ore pulp flows over the whole width of the screens, and the oversize accumulates upon the screen in sufficient quantities to over-balance the counter-weight, which is set at a point on the lever that will allow the screen to tilt downward under any desired accumulation of oversize, andthe instant the oversize has accumulated enough to overbalance the weight 4:8, the screen 10 tilts downward and its load of oversize, which has accumulated ,at] the discharge end of the screen near its vertical stream in alinement'with the axial vertical center of said shaft, a projecting terminal end portion on said screens, means, including a hopper arranged belowsaid screens for collecting the screenings material from said screens, means includinga trough positioned along the opposite .endportions of said frame below the oversize discharging end of said screens, arranged to receive and collect the oversize from said screens to gether and discharge it from said frame, a. water supply pipe rotatably j ournaled across said frame and positioned between said screens below their apex portion, having Water spray discharging apertures positioned on one side, a pinion on one end of saldwater spray pipe in mesh with saidgear segment of said lever, arranged and adapted to turn said pipe so that its water jet discharging apertures will face the underside of eachscreen when in its oversize discharging position in alternate order, and means including a flexible pipe connected to said water spray discharging pipe for discharging a supply of water under pressure from the jet apertures of said water spray pipe. I j

5. In an oscillating screen, the combination with a frame, a feed hopper mounted on said frame, a shaft rotatably mounted in said frame, and an adjustable counter-balancing weight attached to said shaft; of a pair of screens supported by said shaft in operative relation to said hopper, and arranged to receive and operatively screen and discharge ore pulp, by an oscillating movement governed by said weight, a screenings catching pan under each screen arranged to discharge during the upward position of the screen, and a hopper below said pans arranged toreceive the discharging screenings of said pans.

6. In an oscillating screen,'the combination of the frame, a feed hopper at thetop of said frame, discharge troughs atthe'bottom of said frame, a valve controlled pipe ar= ranged tofiow a suppl of water into said troughs, a shaft journa ed in said frame below said feed hopper, screens su ported by said shaft and arranged to be ti ted from a substantially horizontal to a substantially vertical plane, a counter-weight mounted on said shaft to hold said screens in a substantially horizontal plane in alternate order until the volume of oversize material on said screens over-balances said counter-weight, means for limiting the oscillating movement of said screens, means including a hopper below said screens for catching the screenings material of said screens, a perforated pipe between the under sides of said screens, means including a valve-controlled flexible hose connected to said water supply pipe,

through and mounted in said frame; a se water ets' to the under side of said screens .in alternate order. r

A 7. In ascreen as specified, the combinationwitha main frame, 'of a shaft extending v. c ment gear rlgldly secured ad acent to one end of the shaft and lugs onthe outer face of said gear; a lever loosely mounted on the shaft, having ail-adjustable counter-balancing weight on one end, the other end of said lever being extended to lie between the lugs on the segment gear; a rock frame supported by the shaft, having downwardly inclined ledges; screens secured to said ledges, and a partition separating said screens; a erforated pipe extending through the main "ame between the screens; a inion on one end of the pipe in mesh with t 1e segment gear, and a valve-controlled water connection on the other end of the pi e screenings pans below the screens, and-a opper which receives the material frornsaid pans; discharge spouts in the main frame, said'rock frame being moved by the weight of the ore to bring the empty screen uppermost, while the loaded screen is discharging,and a common feed hopper for said screens.

8. In a screen as specified, the combination with a main frame, of a shaft mounted therein; a rock frame secured to the shaft, comprising end plates and inclined bottom plates, which terminate a slight distance "om each other to leave a discharge opening; angle bars secured to each end late in a manner to form an inverted V, t e a ex of which is above the said shaft; frames olted to said angle bar and screening fabric secured to the frames; a partition plate between the frames at their apex; a lever on said shaft having an adjustable counterbalancing weight, and a perforated water pipe mounted in the main frame, between the screens; means connecting the shaft and water ipe, whereby the latter is rotated when t e frame is rocked" by the weight of the ore on one or the other of the screens, to alternately s ray the screens, and a common hopper for t e screens.

9. In a screen as specified, the combination with a main frame, of a shaft pivotally mounted therein; an arm loosely mounted on the shaft so as to extend each side of the same; an adjustable weight on the arm; a

segment gear rigidly mounted on the shaft; a frame secured to the shaft, comprising end lates, and a bottom having a discharge outet; screens supported on the frame, forming substantially an inverted I, having its apex above the shaft; a common feed hopper,

above said screens; a perforated water spray' ing pipe journaled in the main frame between the screens, connected with a water supply at one end; a pinion on the other end,

which is engaged by the segment gear; lugs on said gear between Which one end of the forcibly impinged on their downwardv mover0 arm, having the Weight, hes, sald lugs being nient, when the oounter-haiancing weight far enough apart to aiiord the arm a hmited passes its center of gravity.

rocking movement on the shaft; the shaft In testimony whereof I aHiX my signature supported frame being rocked when sufiiin presence of two Witnesses.

cient material has accumulated on either ALBION B. COLCORD. screen to over-balance the Weight; inde- Vitnesses:

pendent hoppers for the screenings and over- GUY QUAoKnNBUsH,

size, and stops against Which the screens are ALBIN ANDERSON. 

